Author Archive | Jim

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy chat today on Obama’s proposed 7% hiring quota for disabled job applicants. (More details available from the story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal). Brian’s laugh was in fine form – as it always is on the day before his vacation starts. You can listen to the @ […]

Wall Street Journal April 9, 2012 The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled A 7% hiring quota for government contractors is unfair and unwise. By JAMES BOVARD The Obama administration is on the verge of compelling most of the largest corporations and universities, as well as many smaller businesses, to adopt a 7% hiring quota […]

The Foundation for Economic Education reposted a 1999 article I wrote for them as today’s “Timely Classic” from the Freeman archive. This article was a spinoff of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). Once more around the track: Freeman June 1999 Money: The […]

Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of President Wilson’s address to Congress calling for a declaration of war against Germany. The U.S. entry into the war opened a Pandora’s Box that still plagues America and much of the world. One of the war’s clearest lessons: Lies are lies, regardless of whether the liar promises to save […]

  Unfortunately, this zippety P.C. Vey cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may soon be out of date….

Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2012 Op-Ed First wheat, now healthcare A Supreme Court ruling on New Deal farm policies has relevance today. By James Bovard The Obama administration is relying heavily on a 1942 Supreme Court case to sway today’s justices as they consider the constitutionality of compelling Americans to buy health insurance. The […]

From an interview with Press TV: James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation says the U.S. currency “has lost 90 percent of its value” since the early 1900s when the Federal Reserve was created. It is understandable that foreign nations are now “leery” of the dollar and are shifting away from the […]